CSS Transitions and Animations. Motion Path Module CSS

Before CSS3 rising, front-end developers were tossed into a cold sweat, when they heard a word «animation». And all because one reason: it was very non-trivial task to make quality and beautiful animation at those old days. CSS could not do it, so all the animations were made with JavaScript. We’ve had to shovel a lot of forums to find the same fellow sufferers, and to spend a lot of time on development process, but in the end you might hear from your lead designer: «All right, could be worse.» And when finally CSS3 went to release state, the fireworks were shot hard until the morning, and the champagne flowed like a river. It was a memorable day for all web developers (the next such day was when Microsoft announced the termination of Internet Explorer support). With the advent of CSS3, many previously challenging issues turned into a simple and pleasant tasks. The same applies to animations in CSS.

Let's make an MVVM at Android

Now it's time to make a flexible architecture for Android using DataBinding!

Simple unit tests for Android

The time has come to share with you this small article on testing Android app logic. It didn’t occur to me that it is a significant component of Android app development for quite a time but it’s never too late to learn, neither for you, nor for me :)

Learning Android gestures

What happens within the system when a user touches the screen? And even more important — how to handle it right? The time has come to figure everything out once and for all! Today’s post is on what I’ve learned about Android Touch System and my experience with it.

How to create and publish your first Android library

Sooner or later every Android developer accumulates a fair amount of ready-made solutions and decides that it would be great to share them with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, most of us never get down to it since every solution should be turned into a separate library and put into a separate open repository. Plus, some tend to think that it’s all too complicated to even bother. Here I’d like to bust this myth since with Gradle coming into Android stack sharing your library with the world is much easier than it used to be.

Animation in iOS: native solutions and third-party frameworks

Today we will take a look at a couple of quite simple examples, learn about pros and cons of what Apple has to offer in terms of animation and get ourselves familiar with some third-party frameworks I personally find to be quite useful for handling animation. I will also show you how to use UIKit Dynamics and Motion Effects available starting from iOS 7.

Best free fonts for designers

Fonts used to display text influence the perception of the latter. That’s why for this article we have collected the best free fonts for designers that will help your web designs and printed materials using Cyrillic and Romanian scripts to look and feel professional.

Saving data in Android using Realm

How to save data for your mobile application? There’re three possible ways: Shared preferences/User defaults, files and databases. When choosing which one to use you should take into account the volume of data your app will work with, mobile data type and what exactly you’ll be doing with the data. Traditionally mobile software developers were using SQLite but there’s another type of the database out there called Realm and here we’d like to talk about its advantages and show how we use it in our projects.

10 most common web design mistakes to avoid

Website design mistakes undermine site effectiveness and make it lose visitors and potential clients. That’s why it is important to create websites that are not only visually attractive but also easy to navigate and use. In this article we demonstrate examples of web design mistakes and give useful tips on how to avoid them.

Web UI design examples

Website popularity depends not only on quality of the content but also on how easy it is for users to work with it. And here’s where website UI design comes in. In this article we are going to show you some UI design examples and talk about which elements are essential for good website UI design.